Our Lady's Tears: Friar Servants of Mary, the Servite Order

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Friar Servants of Mary, the Servite Order

The Seven Holy Founders of the Servite Order

Go here for the international website for the Servite Order. I am also adding this to my favorite website list on the right sidebar. I encourage each of you to learn more about this order and pray for them. Look into them if you are discerning a call to religious life. I cannot speak for their orthodoxy, nor if this order is thriving or diminishing as so many are today. I simply don't know enough to say. From this order comes the black scapular, which seems to be underemphasized perhaps.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: I've learned so much from your blog and the devotions you publish. Thank you.

Don't know if this is of any use to you; you seem to have all sorts of information about the Servites, but I just encountered the blog,"Overheard in the Sacristy" (http://fiftysophomoricsummers.blogspot.com/) In his bio is says, "He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites)." Perhaps another source of information for you.; 2/02/2008 09:05:00 PM
Anonymous said...: You can always contact the Servites directly..check their website out:
www.servite.org; 11/12/2008 04:08:00 PM

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St. Winifred

Also St. Gwenfrewy or Winefride, she was the daughter of a Welsh nobleman, Tyfid ap Eiludd. Her suitor, Caradog, was enraged when she decided to become a nun, and decapitated her. Her head rolled downhill, and, where it stopped, a healing spring appeared. Winefride's head was subsequently rejoined to her body due to the efforts of her maternal uncle, Saint Beuno, and she was restored to life. She later became a nun and abbess at Gwytherin in Denbighshire, and Caradog, cursed by St. Beuno, melted into the ground. She died 660.